Yesterday when I was flipping channels on my TV. I came to a channel that was talking about one of those Ice Hotels they where doing an interview with a photographer by the name of Eric Mutel. what he does is takes portraits and then places it behind a 1in or 2in plain of ice creating an image that was distorted. I thought this would be interesting to Austin, CJ, and Steve.










Eric Mutel
http://eric.mutel1.free.fr

I have been exploring a computer program called Zbrush. This program is based on digital sculpting and painting that has revolutionized the digital arts. This interface uses the most advanced tools, that allows Zbrush to sculpt up to a billion polygons. Designed around a principle of circularity, the menus in ZBrush work together in a non-linear and mode-free method. Giving the artist a new form to create 3D models and 2D images. One of the core functions of ZBrush is being able to provide artists the ability to create an environment that allows them the freedom of expression. An artist is only limited by there imagination

I also been exploring other artists who has worked there creative ideas in to realty. Steve Jubinville is just one of these artists. Graduated from the NAD Centre, Steve Jubinville is one of the new artists masters in digital sculpture and character modeling. He started his career at Skuad Studios, Then working his way to CAE Electronics and Ubisoft where he worked in the Cut-scene Department as Character Artist. He began work on modeling the main characters for Prince of Persia, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, Far Cry and Assassins. As for right now Steve is teaching at NAD Centre the Organic Modeling and is a Zbrush leading artist since 2004.
The artwork below is some of his latest pieces of artworks

barbara crane.

these are for jori. and emily too, i suppose. i feel like jori likes the alternative portrait and the fragmented view rather than the full. and emily likes eggleston who has a fair amount of just... awkward portraits, which i feel like these fall under.

jonathan harris

so this is a ted with Jonathan Harris. if you can get past his voice, he has a lot of interesting ideas, not all super awesome but at least interesting. the thing i thought was really interesting was his "We Feel Fine" project. i think it would be interesting for katy with the database aspect, chelsea with her found images and her interest in history or other peoples stories and maybe even megan after her number project. so here is the talk, itself. and below that is another talk about the we feel fine piece.

vik muniz.

this is a Vik Muniz TED talk that i talked about in an earlier post. i think he makes a lot of interesting points about perception and ways of seeing that we've either talked about in class/should talk about in class. and either way, i feel as if this is kind of motivating or inspirational in a way. i really enjoyed it and i think you will, too.

"it's not about fooling somebody, it's about giving them a measure of their own belief."

paula muhr

i posted this to emily's facebook, but i feel like it would be nice to repost here for everyone to see and discuss.

http://iheartphotograph.blogspot.com/2010/02/paula-muhr.html

she's doing something similar to emily, recreating images of her mother. but i feel as if it's quite a bit different because she is DIRECTLY reproducing the situation, even down to costuming the shot and image degradation whereas emily is reinterpreting family photos and even stories making them into photos. let me know what you guys think.

jamie oliver TED

this is for abbe. i noticed she was talking about cakes and preservatives and being conscious of what's in your food and Jamie Oliver, the 2010 TED Prize winner, just did a lecture about teaching children about food and the dangerous position we've put ourselves in with our diets, talking about fast food culture, frozen foods and losing the traditional family meal/not cooking or passing down recipes.